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This sounds like software snobbery to me. I don't know of an excuse for
them not offering a filter.
I found this so hard to believe that I checked it out on my copy. Word 6
has almost nothing in the way of filters. I'll check out the CD and see if
they're lurking somewhere, but David would appear to be correct. This is a
good enough reason for people *not* to buy Word 6.
Marilynne
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At 12:01 PM 4/12/96 HST, David Jones/KSBEISD wrote:
>We did a full installation of MS Office Pro (the W3.1 version), and Word 6 does
>not come with an import filter for WPWIN6. We had to get it from the Microsoft
>Web server ...
>David Jones, Technical Writer
>David_Jones/KSBEISD -dot- KSBEISD -at- Datahub -dot- com
>Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate
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Marilynne Smith
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